The latest trick is they ignore the default choice completely and open all links in Outlook in edge anyhow, also they are sending notifications saying to use edge or get less battery time.
We set up a bridge between the Lemmy.world General Matrix room and the Public-1 channel on the Lemmy World discord server yesterday. It’s not perfect as emoji reactions aren’t visible and some minor things like how it handles edited messages but other than that it seems to be working well....
If you need more ammunition they recently also changed it so all links in Outlook opens in Edge even if it’s not the default browser. You have to go to settings and find an entirely separate default browser setting to stop it.
I was using Windows for a long time, from 95, XP, 7 and 10. Games just worked out fine, software that I needed I pirated. But I was annoyed from updates, (cannot turn off MY pc, just update and turn off option) bing, fokin bing and oh the best - F1 binded to it....
As far as I’m aware WS is pretty close to what you get by just using virtalbox (with an easier setup) so you could do that on Linux. With Linux you also have more advanced solutions though like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS
Write to your country’s anti-trust body if you feel Google is unilaterally going after the open web with WEI (content below taken from HN thread news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880390).
<span style="color:#323232;">Google has proposed a new Web Environment Integrity standard, outlined here: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">This standard would allow Google applications to block users who are not using Google products like Chrome or Android, and encourages other web developers to do the same, with the goal of eliminating ad blockers and competing web browsers.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Google has already begun implementing this in their browser here: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Basic facts:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Google is a developer of popular websites such as google.com and youtube.com (currently the two most popular websites in the world according to SimilarWeb)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Google is the developer of the most popular browser in the world, Chrome, with around 65% of market share. Most other popular browsers are based on Chromium, also developed primarily by Google.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Google is the developer of the most popular mobile operating system in the world, Android, with around 70% of market share.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Currently, Google’s websites can be viewed on any web-standards-compliant browser on a device made by any manufacturer. This WEI proposal would allow Google websites to reject users that are not running a Google-approved browser on a Google-approved device. For example, Google could require that Youtube or Google Search can only be viewed using an official Android app or the Chrome browser, thereby noncompetitively locking consumers into using Google products while providing no benefit to those consumers.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Google is also primarily an ad company, with the majority of its revenue coming from ads. Google’s business model is challenged by browsers that do not show ads the way Google intends. This proposal would encourage any web developer using Google’s ad services to reject users that are not running a verified Google-approved version of Chrome, to ensure ads are viewed the way the advertiser wishes. This is not a hypothetical hidden agenda, it is explicitly stated in the proposal:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">“Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund themselves with ads, but the advertisers can only afford to pay for humans to see the ads, rather than robots. This creates a need for human users to prove to websites that they’re human, sometimes through tasks like challenges or logins.”
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The proposed solution here is to allow web developers to reject any user that cannot prove they have viewed Google-served ads with their own human eyes.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">It is essential to combat this proposal now, while it is still in an early stage. Once this is rolled out into Chrome and deployed around the world, it will be extremely difficult to rollback. It may be impossible to prevent this proposal if Google is allowed to continue owning the entire stack of website, browser, operating system, and hardware.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Thank you for your consideration of this important issue.
</span>
Write to your country’s anti-trust body if you feel Google is unilaterally going after the open web with WEI (content below taken from HN thread news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880390).
<span style="color:#323232;">Google has proposed a new Web Environment Integrity standard, outlined here: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">This standard would allow Google applications to block users who are not using Google products like Chrome or Android, and encourages other web developers to do the same, with the goal of eliminating ad blockers and competing web browsers.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Google has already begun implementing this in their browser here: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Basic facts:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Google is a developer of popular websites such as google.com and youtube.com (currently the two most popular websites in the world according to SimilarWeb)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Google is the developer of the most popular browser in the world, Chrome, with around 65% of market share. Most other popular browsers are based on Chromium, also developed primarily by Google.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Google is the developer of the most popular mobile operating system in the world, Android, with around 70% of market share.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Currently, Google’s websites can be viewed on any web-standards-compliant browser on a device made by any manufacturer. This WEI proposal would allow Google websites to reject users that are not running a Google-approved browser on a Google-approved device. For example, Google could require that Youtube or Google Search can only be viewed using an official Android app or the Chrome browser, thereby noncompetitively locking consumers into using Google products while providing no benefit to those consumers.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Google is also primarily an ad company, with the majority of its revenue coming from ads. Google’s business model is challenged by browsers that do not show ads the way Google intends. This proposal would encourage any web developer using Google’s ad services to reject users that are not running a verified Google-approved version of Chrome, to ensure ads are viewed the way the advertiser wishes. This is not a hypothetical hidden agenda, it is explicitly stated in the proposal:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">“Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund themselves with ads, but the advertisers can only afford to pay for humans to see the ads, rather than robots. This creates a need for human users to prove to websites that they’re human, sometimes through tasks like challenges or logins.”
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The proposed solution here is to allow web developers to reject any user that cannot prove they have viewed Google-served ads with their own human eyes.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">It is essential to combat this proposal now, while it is still in an early stage. Once this is rolled out into Chrome and deployed around the world, it will be extremely difficult to rollback. It may be impossible to prevent this proposal if Google is allowed to continue owning the entire stack of website, browser, operating system, and hardware.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Thank you for your consideration of this important issue.
</span>
It’s not uncommon for such sites to work fine in Firefox if you just add a user agent switcher addon, so that is worth trying (can be limited to specific sites so you advertise Firefox usage for others).
<span style="color:#323232;"><p class="not-firefox-warning">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> This site is designed for <a href="https://firefox.com/">Firefox</a>,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> a web browser that respects your privacy.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"></p>
</span><span style="color:#323232;"><style>
</span><span style="color:#323232;">@-moz-document url-prefix() { .not-firefox-warning { display: none; }}
</span><span style="color:#323232;"></style>
</span>
Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks (www.theregister.com)
Can you blame it?
Bridge set up between Matrix and Discord (lemmy.world)
We set up a bridge between the Lemmy.world General Matrix room and the Public-1 channel on the Lemmy World discord server yesterday. It’s not perfect as emoji reactions aren’t visible and some minor things like how it handles edited messages but other than that it seems to be working well....
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)
I switched from Windows 10 to Linux. Its great!
I was using Windows for a long time, from 95, XP, 7 and 10. Games just worked out fine, software that I needed I pirated. But I was annoyed from updates, (cannot turn off MY pc, just update and turn off option) bing, fokin bing and oh the best - F1 binded to it....
Google's Web DRM is Worse than I Thought... (www.youtube.com)
This video as a text article: blog.nicco.love/google-drms-the-web/
Your Computer Should Say What You Tell It To Say - Google is adding code to Chrome that will send tamper-proof information about your operating system and other software, and share it with websites (www.eff.org)
Summary...
The back-to-office backfire: Companies ending WFH perks lose out on top talent, who view flexible work as equivalent to an 8% raise (www.businessinsider.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1125686...
Lemmy.world error page
This is the current error page:...
Google is already pushing WEI(DRM Webpage) into Chromium (github.com)